Like bad pennies that are no longer made, anti-gunners consistently pop up with this or that scheme to infringe on the Second Amendment. Some efforts are more serious than others, but it’s important to recognize battles being fought to protect gun rights.
Highland Park, Illinois, was the setting for the tragic Independence Day parade shooting some four years ago that claimed seven lives and wounded dozens. The shooter will never breathe free air again, but that’s not enough for some.
From that setting, a group of residents formed the Highland Park Peace Project (HP3). The goal is familiar—to ban popular sporting rifles—but the approach is unique.
‘Shame’ as a weapon against constitutional rights is a new twist
Members are busy compiling a public database listing any and every company, business, or organization that conducts business with firearms manufacturers and sellers. The objective is clear.
The group seeks to shame upstanding groups that put “millions of dollars into the pockets” of Second Amendment-related entities. Never mind that the shooter is locked away for life without parole and that Illinois made sporting rifles illegal through the so-called Protect Illinois Communities Act.
Group claims to be apolitical while railing against gun rights
Organizers such as HP3 co-founder Daniel Perlman spearhead the project with the stated goal to “change behavior.”
“By taking action against those businesses, it’s our hope that we can disrupt the system that allows these mass shootings to continue,” Perlman said.
That behavior apparently includes everything from providing critical financial services for a constitutionally protected industry to delivering pizza to a warehouse.
Perlman, a Highland Park attorney, said he got the idea from observing public pension fund managers pressuring private equity investors to avoid investments in the firearms industry.
The plan is to uplift a wide array of businesses as “heroes” if they comply and “enablers” if they do not.
Of course, whether more than a handful of radical anti-Second Amendment types glance at the naughty or nice list is anyone’s guess. But the novelty of attempting to strip constitutional rights from law-abiding citizens never gets old to that crowd.
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